Crop options

To crop an image in Photoshop, of course, you need to use the Crop tool.…Press the letter C on your keyboard to switch to the Crop tool.…I've already got that chosen, or you can click on the happy, little Crop icon there.…Now, by default, it's just a freeform crop.…Sp just click-and-drag with the mouse and just drag out a rectangle and drag…that to whatever shape you want to crop the image into.…There is a nice overlay.…This is called the Rule of Thirds overlay.…The idea here is that you line up interesting things in the image in the…composition on one of these intersection points. I want to do that.…

It's just kind of a helpful guide.…So if I line up her eye with that intersection there, in theory, you're going to…get better composition, and most of time that's actually true.…Now, if you don't like that, you can actually change it to a Grid, more equal…parts to bring up the area of the rectangle into equal parts, or if you don't…like either of it, you can change it to None.…I like the default Rule of Thirds and keep it on there.…

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4/30/2010

In Photoshop CS5 Essential Training, author Michael Ninness demonstrates how to produce the highest quality images with fantastic detail in the shortest amount of time, using a combination of Photoshop CS5, Adobe Bridge, and Camera Raw. This course shows the most efficient ways to perform common editing tasks, including noise reduction, shadow and highlight detail recovery, retouching, and combining multiple images. Along the way, Michael shares the secrets of non-destructive editing, utilizing and mastering Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw, layers, adjustment layers, blending modes, layer masks, and much more. Exercise files are included with the course.